Flap for carriage-doors



(No Model.)

Patented Sept. 18

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UNITED STATES PATENT CFFIGE.

JOHN J. DOYLE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE SCHOLLHORN & TIESING MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

FLAP FOR CARRIAGE-DOORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,240, dated September 18, 1883.

Application filed July 5, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN J. DOYLE, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new Improvement in Flaps for Landau-Carriage Doors; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanyingdrawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a perspective view of the flap in its raised position Fig. 2, a side view showing it as applied to the door of a carriage; Fig. 3, an end view looking toward the hinge, in the position as when the flap is turned down. Fig. 4, a central section showing the flap turned down, broken lines indicating the flap in its raised position.

This invention relates to an improvement in that part of a landau-carriage called the flap --that is to say, the hinged guide which I is attached at each side of the door to support the glass when raised; but when the glass is dropped the flap is turned down upon the top of the door, so as to cover the pocket.

In the usual construction, the hinge of this flap, when turned down, leaves an opening at the joint, which not only gives an unfinished appearance to that part of the carriage, but offers a receptacle for dirt, which produces an obstruction to the proper working of the flap.

The object of my invention is to construct the joint of the fiap so that no opening will appear; and it consists in the construction as hereinafter described, and more particularly recited in the claim.

A is the stationary part of the flap, which is screwed upon the door-pillar; B, an arm, which extends therefrom so as to be screwed down onto the top of the door. The flap C is of usual shape except as to the hinge. The stationary piece A is constructed with a knuckle, D, upon the upper end. The corresponding end of the flap is recessed to receive 5 the said knuckle, the recess extending between the two fianges a a of the flap. The knuckle is substantially cylindrical in shape, and the recess is made in a semi-cylindrical projection, E, on the end of the flap. The pin tle of the hinge passes through the ears ac and the knuckle, so that the knuckle stands within the cylindrical projection E and is inclosed by it. The knuckle D overhangs, so as to bring the stop for the flap when turned up 5 5 upon the under side, beneath the pintle, as at d. (See Fig. 4.) Thesemi-cylindrical projection E extends overthe knuckle, and so as to strike below the knuckle, as at (I, when it reaches its perpendicular position. It is by making this semi-cylindrical projection to cover the knuckle and bringing the stop below and beneath that I am enabled to conceal the joint, the stop heretofore having been made at a position above and whereby the turning down of the flap necessarily uncovered the knuckle. The pillar is recessed as at F, Fig. 2, so that this projection E will enter therein when the flap is closed, and then when turned down, as in broken lines, Fig. 2, the projection E will cover the knuckle.

I claim The herein-described improvement in flaps for landau-carriage doors, consisting in the part A, constructed for attachment to the door-pillar, and with a knuckle, D, at its upper end, constructed to form the stop (1 beneath the pintle, combined with a flap, C, constructed with a semi-cylindrical projection, E, having a recess to inclose the said knuckle to which the said flap is hinged, and so as to strike the stop (I beneath the pintle when the flap is turned up, substantially as described.

JOHN J. DOYLE.

Witnesses:

FRANK D. HANRAHAN, F. G. HARTWELL.

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